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Tabula nova utriusque Indiae
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, L.Fries, Servetus, 1541
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011
![[Tabula Sexta Asiae Complectitur Arabam felicem & Carmaniam].](/uploads/cache/97404-250x250.jpg)
[Tabula Sexta Asiae Complectitur Arabam felicem & Carmaniam].
A classic Ptolemaic map of Arabia after Waldseemüller. Arabia and the Persian Gulf are both oversized and distorted. With numerous place names, islands, rivers and mount...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1522-1541
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2016
Tabula sexta Asiae de Moribus Arabum, & prodigÿs arabiae.
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of the Arabian Peninsula prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Selling price: $5000
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Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of South East Asia, with inset panel of tiger, cockerels and parrot. Woodcut map with full hand-coloring as known to Ptolemy. From his Geog...
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1542
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae VII.
Attractive woodblock map, depicting to the left Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea according to Ptolemy. The mountain ranges are depicted in the manner of the early Ptolemaic f...
Place & Date: Basle, 1542
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
Terrae Sanctae Tabula
"Attractive woodblock map of the Holy Land drawn with west to the top of the sheet, the map shows the division of the country between the tribes of Israel according ...
Place & Date: Basle 1544
Selling price: $630
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[Map of the Palestine]
Page with an early representation of the Palestine. This text page with a fine wood block printed map is from the rare work "C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor, Rerum Toto O...
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae I (Turkey)
The first edition of Munster's map of Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographi...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae VIII (India & Central Asia with Monsters and Anthropomorphs)
The first edition of Munster's map of central Asia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. This fa...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae IX (Northern India and Pakistan)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern India, present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the delta of the Indus River graphically depicted. Based upon Claud...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Münster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
India extrema XXIIII Nova Tabula. (Asia)
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Munster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2017
![Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]](/uploads/cache/39794-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]
This fine woodcut is an early Ptolemaic map of the Arabian Peninsula here called 'Arabia Felix'. It is a fairly decent representation of the peninsula, although perhaps P...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae VI (Arabia).
Good example map of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Gulf, based upon Ptolemy, it includes a mermaid and a sea monster at the lower right corner.Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 15...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
India Tercera Nova Tabula.
Gastaldi's map of South East Asia from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geogr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2021
![Tabula Asiae XI. [Southeast Asia]](/uploads/cache/47432-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae XI. [Southeast Asia]
Gastaldi's map showing Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region .From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 15...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
![Von den Laendern Asie [Palestine]](/uploads/cache/18623-250x250.jpg)
Von den Laendern Asie [Palestine]
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $200
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India extrema XIX Nova Tabula.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1400
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Sumatra ein grosse Insel so von den alten Geographen Taprobana genennt worden.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Edited Ptolemy's atlas Geographia Universalis, editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his Cosmogra...
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem
Decorative colored woodcut town-view of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. From a German edition of the "Cosmographey". Showing the city from birdeye perspective ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae sciliset extremas complectens terras et regna.
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators.The outline of the Asian mainland i...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2013
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2016
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in disser tafel verzeichnet
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators..The outline of the Asian mainland is relati...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet..
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2017
Ierusalem ciuitas sancta, olim metropolis regni iudaici, hodie uero colonia Turcae.
A double page woodcut featuring a bird's eye view of Jerusalem, taken from Sebastian Münster's famous "Cosmographia". Engraved by Jakob Clauser, it shows an im...
Place & Date: Basle, c1550
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2016
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
A very decorative colored woodcut of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. It shows the city from a birds-eye perspective. Mount Zion is in background.From a German edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2020
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
A very decorative colored woodcut of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster.It Shows the city from a birds-eye perspective. Mount Zion is in background. From a German edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2016
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
Constantinopel
A detailed bird's-eye view of the 'Golden Horn' of Istanbul (Constantinople). The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia S...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
Decorative colored woodcut view of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. From a German edition of the "Cosmographey". Showing the city from birdeye perspective with ...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $245
Sold in 2019
Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terras et regna.
Very early woodcut printed map of the Asia, published in the monumental Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The maps shows all of Asia, parts of the Indian Ocean with Mad...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2019
![Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]](/uploads/cache/35960-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]
An attractive woodcut map of Asia Minor by the famous cartographer Sebastien Münster, published in his Ptolemy edition of Basle in 1552. Map has a lot of interesting and...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean.
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1552
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
URBIS CONSTANTINOPOLITANAE descriptio, incerto autore.
An engraved map of Asia Minor, showing Pontus Euxinus, the Byzantine Empire, the Aegean Sea and a King Figure in a throne. Page from Notitia vtraqve cvm orientis tvm Occi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2019
![[Lot of 2 plates] Ierusalem civitas../ [map of Palestine + Cyprus].](/uploads/cache/48240-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 plates] Ierusalem civitas../ [map of Palestine + Cyprus].
Early woodcut view of the city of Jerusalem surrounded by its ancient walls, featuring the temples and mosques. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Munster's Cosmographia...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
![[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]](/uploads/cache/48274-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]
Thirty-four text pages with wood block illustrations about Greece and Turkey with small maps, views, animals.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmograph...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 2 leaves with map of Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/48277-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 leaves with map of Cyprus]
Two printed text leaves relating to Cyprus with a map (10 x 15 cm). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $58
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]](/uploads/cache/48280-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]
Seventeen text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia illustrated with animals : elephants, rhinoceros... From the 1552 L...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022